IMPROVISED SIGNALING METHODS.
The object of this chapter has been to describe only the standard visual signaling equipment issued and generally utilized. Besides the methods detailed, there are many others which may be successfully employed by the ingenious signalman when the necessity for them arise. The use of any means of transmitting signals whatever is justifiable when for any reason the regular apparatus is not available. Special conventional scout signals are given in paragraph 82, Field Service Regulations.
In the field many instances will occur where it will be necessary to transmit information rapidly without recourse to the authorized equipment. This will be especially true of outposts, detached stations, patrols, and other small bodies of troops, and it will devolve upon individual commanders to improvise methods of signaling best suited to the occasion and the conveniences at hand.